A federal judge has again given the state more time to end its practice of holding mental health patients in emergency departments for prolonged periods. Last year, Judge Landya B. McCafferty ordered ...

A patient room is seen at the LMH Health emergency department. When inpatient resources are at capacity – whether it’s because of a lack of physical beds or a patient volume exceeds the number of ...

Emergency department boarding not only complicates hospital operations and hampers care quality, but it also places a significant financial burden on health systems, a recent study suggests. Although ...

Longer wait times for hospital beds put patients at risk and demoralize staff, according to a CT doctors group.

As they try to anticipate the loss of billions to the Ohio health care system, emergency doctors warned last month that it would make patient boarding a lot worse. That’s when people have to lie for ...

They should be in a hospital bed, getting care to help them recover from a medical emergency. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. But instead, more and more Americans ...

More than 1 in 10 psychiatric emergency department visits by young Medicaid patients lead to boarding, with rates of boarding varying widely from state to state, according to a recent analysis.